Glo-bus Participant's Guide Exam
Questions and Complete Solutions
Graded A+
Each decision period in Glo-Bus represents - Answer: a year
What kinds of decisions will you make - Answer: 1. Decisions relating to the design and performance of
your company's two products (21 decisions)
2. Assembly operations and workforce compensation (up to 8 decisions for each product)
3. Pricing and marketing ( 7 decisions for cameras and 6 for drones)
4. Corporate social responsibility and citizenship (up to 6 decisions)
5. Financing of company operations (up to 8 decisions).
What are the strategic actions that will be performed to boost each company's performance? - Answer:
1. Altering prices
2. Product performance and quality
3. Advertising
4. Other competively-relevant factors that impact buyer choices of which company's brand to purchase
Where are the regional facilities of the company located - Answer: 1. Milan, Italy
2. Singapore
, 3. Sao Paulo, Brazil
3. Dallas, Texas
The company has ____ buildings for assembling products at its Taiwan site- one for cameras and one for
drones (the drone assembly process also includes assembly of an action-camera model having features
and specifications suitable for use in camera-equipped drones) - Answer: Two
Both the camera and drones are assembled by - Answer: four-person product assembly teams (PATs),
with each PAT performing the needed tasks at its own assigned workstation
What is the import duty percentage going into year 6? - Answer: 1. 4% of the average price the company
charges customers in Europe-Africa
2. 6% of the average price being charged to customers in both Latin America and the Asia-Pacific
3. No import duties on either cameras or drones shipped to customers in North America
Import duties are subject to change
What was the closing price of a share of stock in the 5th year? - Answer: $12
Worldwide unit sales of wearable and/or mountable, miniature action-capture cameras are reliably
projected to grow ______ annually for the next five years (years 6-10), and then to grow at a slower
_____ annual rate during the following five years (Years 11-15) - Answer: 6-8%, 4-6%
Competition in the worldwide market for action-capture cameras revolves around what? - Answer: 1.
Price
Questions and Complete Solutions
Graded A+
Each decision period in Glo-Bus represents - Answer: a year
What kinds of decisions will you make - Answer: 1. Decisions relating to the design and performance of
your company's two products (21 decisions)
2. Assembly operations and workforce compensation (up to 8 decisions for each product)
3. Pricing and marketing ( 7 decisions for cameras and 6 for drones)
4. Corporate social responsibility and citizenship (up to 6 decisions)
5. Financing of company operations (up to 8 decisions).
What are the strategic actions that will be performed to boost each company's performance? - Answer:
1. Altering prices
2. Product performance and quality
3. Advertising
4. Other competively-relevant factors that impact buyer choices of which company's brand to purchase
Where are the regional facilities of the company located - Answer: 1. Milan, Italy
2. Singapore
, 3. Sao Paulo, Brazil
3. Dallas, Texas
The company has ____ buildings for assembling products at its Taiwan site- one for cameras and one for
drones (the drone assembly process also includes assembly of an action-camera model having features
and specifications suitable for use in camera-equipped drones) - Answer: Two
Both the camera and drones are assembled by - Answer: four-person product assembly teams (PATs),
with each PAT performing the needed tasks at its own assigned workstation
What is the import duty percentage going into year 6? - Answer: 1. 4% of the average price the company
charges customers in Europe-Africa
2. 6% of the average price being charged to customers in both Latin America and the Asia-Pacific
3. No import duties on either cameras or drones shipped to customers in North America
Import duties are subject to change
What was the closing price of a share of stock in the 5th year? - Answer: $12
Worldwide unit sales of wearable and/or mountable, miniature action-capture cameras are reliably
projected to grow ______ annually for the next five years (years 6-10), and then to grow at a slower
_____ annual rate during the following five years (Years 11-15) - Answer: 6-8%, 4-6%
Competition in the worldwide market for action-capture cameras revolves around what? - Answer: 1.
Price
